Monarch House, Aldeburgh
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Monarch House, Aldeburgh
Image: © Robin Drayton Taken: 27 Sep 2022
This former telecommunications centre is now a block of flats. It was a repeater station that connected the submarine telephone cables under the North Sea to the landline cables. In 1922 that the first telephone cable was laid between Aldeburgh and Domburg in The Netherlands. A blue plaque commemorates the historic importance of this building https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7313740 .
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Image Location
Latitude
52.147962
Longitude
1.600577